Tariff Story Database

Tariffs are taxes on Americans. They are paid by American manufacturers, retailers, farmers, small businesses, and consumers. Below are over 500 stories we’ve collected from every corner of the country that illustrate how tariffs are hurting Americans. While these stories by no means capture all of the stories of tariff pain, they do show the breadth of negative impacts across communities, regions, and industries. The stories highlight job losses, deferred investments, disrupted supply chains, lost profits, and lost export markets a result of the trade war. These stories have been captured by local and national press as well as by our own staff as we travelled the country hosting town-hall meetings. They show that tariffs are hurting Americans and the urgency of reaching a deal. Have a story you’d like to share? Click here to submit it.

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Subject Name

Organization

Location

Industry

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August 8, 2018

AK

Trump's trade war with China hits small towns, employers

CBS

Sun Paper

Arkadelphia

Paper

71923

Tariffs add $150 million tag of the Sun Paper plant in Arkadelphia, prompting delays in plans.

Brown-Forman’s Jack Daniel’s Tennessee Whiskey is the most-exported American whiskey brand globally, and the company gets about half of its annual sales outside of the United States. The Louisville-based distiller announced last month that it had prepared for the potential of a trade conflict by increasing export shipments of Jack Daniel’s and its Woodford Reserve Bourbon to markets where it controls its own distribution. As those tariff-free stocks start to become depleted, the company now plans to pass along the cost of the tariffs to consumers in the form of a 10 percent price increase.

Tennessee company not hiring people or growing business in anticipation tariffs remain.

anything dramatic to really grow our business,” Haughey, president of Tennessee-based North American Stamping Group, said by phone. “We’re not hiring those extra people, we’re not growing and spending the extra capital money in anticipation that we might have to hunker down for a while

May 16, 2018

TX

US firms seek tariff relief as US and China try to mend rift

AP

Sanden International

Wylie

Air conditioning

75098

Wylie company warns it will have to lay off workers if 25 percent tariffs take effect.